Looking
for perfect presents as the annual
gift-giving holidays are quickly approaching?
There is an abundance of new books
on the shelves at the Penn Bookstore,
many written by Penn people--including
faculty, deans, and alumni, as well
as books published by the University
of Pennsylvania Press. This is a sampling
of the countless choices.

As
Benjamin Franklin said, "From
a child I was fond of reading and all
the little money that came in my hands
was ever laid out in books." That
must have been a lifelong tendency;
his own library consisted of over 4,000
books and was the largest private library
in America at the time. He also said, "Good
books of all sorts may employ your
leisure and enrich you with treasures
more valuable than those which you
might have procured in your usual vocations."

Bashan
and I by Thomas
Mann. The author's
memoir of life
with his dog. "An
extremely lovable
story. . . An enchanting
classic."--New
York Times. Paper/$14.95

The
Business of Sports
Agents by Kenneth
L. Shropshire and
Timothy Davis.
The latest from
Wharton's Ken Shropshire. "Every
sports agent and
everyone who desires
to become one should
treat themselves
to this comprehensive
book."--Darren
Rovell, ESPN.
Cloth/$29.95

The
Price of a Child by
Lorene Cary. "Cary
is a powerful story
teller, frankly
sensual, mortally
funny this
is a generous,
sardonic, full-blooded
work of fiction." --New
York Times Book
Review. Paper/$14.00

Independence
Hall: in American
Memory by Charlene
Mires. A Pulitzer
prize-winning journalist's
surprising history
of America's most
important national
treasure. Cloth/$34.95

Emblems
of Desire:
Selections
from the Delie' by
Maurice Scéve,
edited and
translated
by Richard
Sieburth.
A new translation
of mysterious
and beautiful
French love
poems. "Marvelous!"--Harold
Bloom. Cloth/$29.95

University
of Pennsylvania:
The Campus
Guide by
George E.
Thomas is
a field guide
to the campus
and a celebration
of the campus's
architecture
and open spaces.
Paper/$24.95

"In
the Days of Serfdom" and
Other Stories, Leo
Tolstoy. Six compelling
short stories from
a master writer,
available for the
first time in paperback.
Paper/ $15.95

The
Press Effect: Politicians,
Journalists, and
the Stories that
Shape the Political
World by Kathleen
Hall Jamieson and
Paul Waldman. This
book reveals how
media coverage
in America determines
what we know and
don't know about
the world of politics.
Cloth/$26.00

A
Matter of Degrees:
What Temperature
Reveals About the
Past and Future
of Our Species,
Planet, and Universe by
Gino Segre, explores
how temperature
is bound up with
the very essence
of both life and
inert matter. Cloth/$24.95

Schopenhauer's
Porcupines: Intimacy
and Its Dilemmas by
Deborah Anna Luepnitz,
recounts five stories
from her practice,
with patients who
range from the
super-rich to the
homeless--as they
grapple with panic
attacks, psychosomatic
illness, marital
despair and sexual
recklessness. Cloth/$25.00

Stocks
For the Long
Run by
Jeremy J.
Siegel is "One
of the Best
Investment
Books of all
time this
is the buy-and-hold
bible.' --James
K. Glassman, The
Washington
Post.
Cloth/$29.95

Word
Freak by Stefan
Fatsis, "writes
with affectionate
zeal about the
game and the fraternity
of brilliant, lonely,
and otherwise dysfunctional
oddballs it attracts." --New
York Times.
Paper/$14.00

Black
Students in the
Ivory Tower: African
American student
Activism at the
University of Pennsylvania,
1967-1990 by
Wayne Glasker,
describes the circumstances
surrounding the
university's decision
to increase its
black enrollment
and the consequences
that followed.
Cloth/$34.95

Uniforms:
Why We Are What
We Wear by
Paul Fussell. In "this
examination of
the personal and
cultural meanings
of the wearing
of uniforms, celebrated
author Fussell
creates a light,
humorous tone by
disclosing his
almost fetishistic
interest in his
subject" and
analyzes the symbolism
behind uniforms.
--Publishers
Weekly. Cloth/$22.00

The
Politics of Presidential
Appointment: A
Memoir of the Culture
War by Sheldon
Hackney. "Tells
a troubling tale
of how easily a
small clique of
right-wingers spun
truth into lies,
manipulated the
mainstream media,
and poisoned the
debate in the U.S.
Senate for its
own ideological
purposes ." --David
Brock. Cloth/$25.95

Philadelphia
Murals and the stories they tell byJane
Golden, Robin Rice, and Monica
Yant Kinney. Discover through
pictures and text how murals give
communities a new way to define
themselves, not in terms of the
streets and intersections that
border them, but in terms of the
people who came together to create
something of dramatic beauty.
Cloth/$29.50

To
see some
of the
other
tempting
titles
now available,
visit
the Penn
Bookstore,
or visit
the University
of Pennsylvania
Press
web site
at www.upenn.edu/pennpress/ or
the Penn
Bookstore's
web site
at upenn.bkstore.com/.